In article <3mhgga$kes@ncar.ucar.edu>, gary@ncar.ucar.edu (Gary Strand) writes:|> jo> John Otteson|> |> jo> Please explain "black self-victimization" to me. What is it and where |> does it come from (ie. what causes it)?|> |> It's a relatively complicated phenomenon, which is revealed by several symp-|> toms, including:|> (a) very high teenager-pregnancy and "illegitimacy" rates;|> (b) black-on-black crime, particularly youth crime; |> (c) exploitation of black oppression by black civil rights groups and lead-|> ers (ie, if blacks weren't disproportionately poor and underrepresented|> politically these guys wouldn't have the power they do);|> (d) dismissal of mainstream culture as "white" culture, so mainstream values|> and viewpoints are avoided (ie, "acting white" and "Uncle Tom"-ism);|> (e) substitution of ideological dogma for factual knowledge (eg, Afrocentrism|> and the "black" version of history and slavery).|> |> There's more, but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.|> |> As for causes, well, I wouldn't necessarily blame white racists for every-|> thing. White didn't invent the notion that the ancient Egyptians were ac-|> tually black, as was Beethoven, and that the New World had been explored|> many centuries before Columbus, nor this whole "Ice People"/"Sun People"|> nonsense. Nor are whites concerned with being "sufficiently white".